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I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my liberal sins because I paid attention to the home front.

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Tom Harkin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 19
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